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title: Ezekiel 18:29 (JPS 1917) — O house of Israel, is it My ways that are not equal? is it not your… · tree and pragmatics
description: O house of Israel, is it My ways that are not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? Who acts: righteous, ways. Ezekiel 18:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 18:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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O house of Israel, is it My ways that are not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal?

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**Who acts:** righteous, ways · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** ways

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This is Ezekiel 18:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (righteous, ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EZK:435
# text = O house of Israel, is it My ways that are not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal?
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	unequal	unequal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | righteous | My ways |  |  |  | house of Israel *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | My ways |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | righteous | your ways |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | your ways |  |  |  |  | unequal *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יִתָּכֵ֖ן דֶּ֣רֶךְ אֲדֹנָ֑י הַדְּרָכַ֞י לֹ֤א יִתָּֽכְנּוּ֙בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הֲלֹ֥א דַרְכֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֥א יִתָּכֵֽן׃

[Ezekiel 18:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.29/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Yet saith the house of Israel: The way of the Lord is not equal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.434/)
2. **O house of Israel, is it My ways that are not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal?**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:435` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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